People smell bad on purpose

[FrozenCones]

The line up at the opening day of PAX......my God. It was a pungent miasma of unbrushed teeth and sweat.

 

[Raine_sage]

There's a woman I work with who's as sweet as can be...but she doesn't wear deodorant, which isn't sweet. We work in a retail store and it frequently gets pretty warm in there, between all the people in the store and the fact that the AC isn't always working as it should. At the end of the day she can smell downright foul, you can smell her like 10 feet away, and the scent lingers even after she walks away. I just don't get it--I don't think she's a part of any religion that prohibits deodorant, and it's not that expensive. I understand money can be tight, but I don't see how it's so tight that you can't even spend a couple of dollars every month or so for the stuff.

There's an urban legend about how antiperpirant causes cancer or something because it blocks all your sweat inside your body so you can't get rid of "toxins" or something. idk it was really popular back in the 90's I don't hear about it much anymore because it's been pretty thoroughly debunked but occasionally I hear it pop up in conversations. So it could just be she read something in a readers digest ages ago and never bothered to fact check.

OT: It wasn't just one person but the entrance hall in highschool just before classes absolutely stank. Not because nobody bathed, actually it was the opposite problem. The combined smell of hundreds of different kinds of toothpastes, shampoos, deodorants, and body sprays created this thick miasma that smelled overwhelmingly of peppermint, alcohol, and strangely enough tin. Since dad liked to drop me off a good thirty minutes before classes were scheduled to start I would hide in the library to get away from it.

 

[direkiller]

Ahh, takes me back to the good old days of being in school, where all the assholes in the year would wear what smelt like an entire can of Lynx (that's Axe for everyone else methinks) a day. Made breathing PE changing rooms something akin to sucking on an exhaust pipe, the joy. And of course, at 16 you know that reeking of deodorant and hair products is what gets the girls.

this except I can't smell(im almost completely anosmic). So when I walk into a locker room I taste the bittering agent for the arisols. I don't know if that makes it worse or not but I hate spray deodorants- and just any arasol in general.

I've walked by a few people where the air tasted sour, it wasn't so much a bad taste as it was creepy as hell. I have no idea if they smelt of shit or roses but can't say I enjoyed it.

 

[lacktheknack]

We had one homeless guy come by our church every so often. We always let him in, had him stay through the service, gave him coffee, etc. Nice guy.

But good heavens, he had an aversion to water. No water would ever touch him if he could help it. I'm sure you can guess how uncomfortable he was to sit by.

 

[Johnny Impact]

In middle school we had a substitute teacher who used half a bottle of perfume to cover up her cigarette reek. It didn't work. Instead the tobacco reek sort of piggybacked on the perfume reek, each odor intensified by the other. It hurt to be in the same room. You could smell her a mile away. If you heard a door shut from a long ways off, and you started to have allergy symptoms, you knew Mrs Lodge had entered the building.

I've been around smokers and cannot imagine the level of intake required to create such an intense tobacco smell. My best friend's father, who chain-smoked Luckies all day until it killed him, did not reek like that.